James Mackenzie
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PR/PA for good causes. While I’m alive I’ll make tiny changes to earth. He. Pro 🌍🚩🏳️⚧️🐱
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Phase 1: racist grandpa claims to have been milkshaked
Phase 2: twitter sleuths work out it was a self-yoghurting
Phase 3: ⬇️🤯
Is this the same Sergeant McNaughton who was tried for the attempted murder of an unarmed civilian in Armagh in 1974?
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pretty unfair that Kissinger got to spend the last weeks of his life watching what he loved the most (massive bombing campaigns against civilian populations)
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People misunderstand how fascism sells itself. It doesn't walk in talking about race hate and genocide.
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I can’t even work out how his legs work. Is he actually three spiteful toddlers in their father’s coat?
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There have been so many acts of civic vandalism in Scotland’s history, but ramming a motorway through the heart of Glasgow will probably never be topped.
M8 construction at Charing Cross, Glasgow. (August 1971) Pic: Weston Langford.
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just had a work zoom with an MSP and I notice now that this was the mug I was drinking out of
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RIP Shana Grice. What a brutal tale: so painful to read. This is not an institution which can be reformed.
Teenager was fined for reporting stalker to police five times before he murdered her
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[Scottish person in London for the first time in two years] god I forgot about the tap water
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the Mail’s review of the Australian Greens’ agenda is one of the most intense “threaten us with a good time” pieces I’ve ever seen
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Rules that could only have been devised by either Calvinists or people with big comfy houses with a lovely garden and a wine-rack — just piss off out of people’s lives, it’s been a long year and this is cruelty.
Avoid a fine – don’t go drinking in the Meadows or other parks. It’s against the coronavirus restrictions law. Be safe.
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having worked in various press offices one thing I know for sure is this: a public sector statement coming out after 9pm on a bank holiday is the result of the most tortuous meetings you can imagine
It was not our intention to prevent protest. It is very clear a number of protests took place across the footprint both before, during and after the event with no police intervention.
Any suggestion all protest was prohibited is not correct.
🧵🔽
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It is enraging to see Salmond given a platform to portray himself as the victim of a ludicrously implausible conspiracy while the women in the case are marginalised and ignored.
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[small brain] change your bank
[larger brain] regulate banks
[big brain] nationalise banks
[galaxy brain] let raccoons take over banks
A raccoon family has taken over a Toronto bank causing it to shut down.
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That’s big news. Sturgeon presses Sarwar on whether a Yes majority is a mandate and he says “Of course Scotland has a right to choose and that’s what they’re doing in this election”. Glad to hear it.
#STVDebate
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The “Corbyn must not be allowed to stop Brexit in case we need to nuke someone before the end of October” crowd might be the absolutely most absurd 1% in modern British politics.
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Police Scotland shouldn’t be complying with the Tories’ “hostile environment” agenda. Get these vans out of our communities.
Huge protest mobilised in Pollokshields against Home Office raid
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just a heads-up, the Russell Brand stuff is worse even than I had imagined it, and I expected it to be absolutely vile, approach with caution
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@BuserBrooks
The missionaries are carrying out an act of true evil in the lineage of the conquistadors, who destroyed culture and stole land. I pray the whole community reject their teachings and their presence.
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Surely even by Labour standards it’d be weird if they decide car parts should have more freedom than British workers.
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I was at
#PrideEdinburgh
yesterday for the first time with a couple of pals, and had an absolutely lovely time. I'd hoped to meet up with another of my dearest pals, but found out she'd left early.
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Tory Minister: “We do want to see the private sector running the East Coast again..”
Eddie Mair: “gosh, do you never learn?” 😂
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@mariaelenactq
I was a cleaner on a geriatric ward and when it was all done I'd hide in this old guy's room and chat and watch cricket (boring sport but better than make-work). Genuinely think the companionship was a better contribution than pretending to clean.
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"No trans woman has ever made me feel unsafe. They have always respected my boundaries and my dignity."
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Still feel this should be further up the collective to-do list.
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"It wasn’t. It was a small group of white, ostensibly middle class cis women screaming hate at us. At Pride – an event that was initially a response to police brutality against mostly black trans women."
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"These people yesterday made Pride an unsafe place for women like me, and for my trans pals and allies." ENDS
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okay I’ve literally never heard of this one, and I’m an extremely online politics obsessive
Tory leadership contest: Mark Harper is 12th MP to enter race
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Calling him “Iain” doesn’t hide what you’re doing here, Tesco. Leave David Torrance alone.
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@FeelingFisky
@imteddybless
And then hid every single reply that said orange, legendary use of an often sketchy feature
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"I was once followed into the toilet in a pub in Cowdenbeath by a man who tried to kick the door down and attack me because, y’know, women’s safety."
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@juliamacfarlane
@Oxenstierna_IRL
Not that I have a dog in Labour’s internal fights but the author says it was the Corbyn-sceptical members who voted it down.
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"I’m a cis lesbian, and because of this sort of behaviour, I am scared to go the public bathrooms much of the time."
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All of this would be going much more smoothly if the SNP had addressed their burgeoning transphobia problem during the 2016-2021 session.
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@thetimes
sure, it happens, but the ceaseless promotion of it beyond all proportionality is designed to scare trans people off from doing what they need to do, and to encourage cis people to think it’s only a phase
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@MightyMightyO1
must be lovely to be forced by your work and a litigious crank into sharing a space with people who hate you ☺️
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This is excellent news. Regan is not just massively transphobic but was also the primary promoter within the Scottish Government of measures designed to endanger sex workers (aka "The Nordic Model").
🚨 SNP Minister Ash Regan resigns over Scottish Government plans to make it easier for people to change their legally-recognised gender.
SNP MSPs were whipped to vote for the proposals today.
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Proposal for banknotes - stop putting people on them at all (it leads to the second most boring debate ever after flags) and just go with animals.
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if your property has been empty for a year or more and you don't have a legit reason (e.g. medical) it should automatically become Council property for social housing - I can see five long-term empty flats from just outside my own
Owners of empty homes urged to consider options as city faces housing crisis.
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"It brought back awful memories of all the times my own gender has been policed by these fuckers. I can’t imagine how it might have made trans and non-binary community members feel."
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it is precisely what Britain is and what British police are
This is not what Britain is - and not what British police are.
This is our police being used as government enforcers for a government over-obsessed with controlling culture whilst preaching an alarm around the protection of free speech.
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Some pretty modest stuff being called "hard left" these days.
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"I am routinely challenged when trying to go to the toilet and I am anxious every time I walk into the women’s changing room at the gym."
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Watching
@patrickharvie
having to explain the difference between constituency and list votes to a BBC presenter
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"That was the most serious attack, but it was by no means an isolated incident. The attack by the anti-trans protesters yesterday was part of that continuum of violence."
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Gentle request to other independence supporters: there are a lot of people undecided out there. Please listen first, and discuss politely.
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anyone really posh follow me? I’m in a rural airbnb and have no idea how to cook on an aga, all advice gratefully received
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In policy terms, the Labour/Lib/Tory deal for control of Edinburgh is a disaster for the city; the landlords and bike-haters will be in charge on everything that matters. Politically Labour will pay a high price (but it’ll be great for the Tories). Baffling decision.
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One of the Iraqis who was stopped at JFK had been living in Sweden, got permission to reunite with his family in America.
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Seeing a lot of “people of colour need to accept a more racist left if they want to stop the right” - either coded or explicit.
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@magnusllewellin
Edinburgh residents welcome 1400 flats newly available for rent or purchase
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Imagine either writing this or, as an editor, signing it off
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every Labour "strategy paper" is like
"Broughhampton Man uses the NHS, eats toast, earns £48k and despises the poor, has a 2 year old Vauxhall Astra, thought Boris was a bit of a lad, is quite racist and homophobic, and is coming home to Labour"
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@Nangela72
@MightyMightyO1
I love to hear "you don't get to discriminate against people" from the "we must be allowed to discriminate against people" crowd
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a pal on a modest income, part time job, just got asked to do jury service, and if she does it, she will be left enough out of pocket to notice it .. can anyone explain why a public service like this should cost someone? why do we not just pay the whole of lost income?
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"I wanted to go home at that point. But I didn’t because I was walking hand in hand with a colleague who was at his first Pride and I didn’t want to let him down."
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Andy Murray talked about the negativity of No. It's hard to tell from this pic what he is referring to.
#indyref
http://t.co/oFj5DOF27z
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Thanks to everyone who shared this. I’m sending her all these screenshots - hopefully some good will come from this terrible situation.
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She told me why and, well, here's why. I'm handing over my twitter to her, given she can't talk about this openly because of her job.
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There is no fuel shortage.
I repeat,
THERE IS NO FUEL SHORTAGE!!
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If anyone can justify why the SNP have set up a fund for landlords while throwing tenants under the bus, please do let me know. It doesn't make sense morally, and I can't see how it makes sense politically.
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Everyone: the planet is burning, help, what can we do about it?
Johnson: let’s make petrol cheaper
BREAKING: Fuel duty to be cut in the emergency budget. The first cut in 8 years. See Sunday Times
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me trying to walk home along North Bridge after a meeting
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polls: Salmond again an irrelevance, unlikely to win a single seat
media, pro and anti-indy alike: BUT WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ALEX SALMOND, LET'S TALK ABOUT ALEX SALMOND AGAIN, THE WHOLE ELECTION IS ABOUT SALMOND
me: sigh
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If people want a left party that is anti nuke, anti-arms trade, pro trans rights, pro sex worker rights, anti-borders, etc; may I suggest the Greens rather than dreaming of some idealised future Labour Party?
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"Yesterday was the first time I went to a Pride march and felt attacked, targeted, and deeply ashamed of some parts of my community."
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Every single positive policy change that I can think of has at least a small negative effect on the vested interests who make money at the expense of society, workers, tenants, and/or the environment. And the same tools are being used to try to stop change, over and over.
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I can only assume the intern left with the password for the No account so it can’t just be deleted in its entirety; it has aged atrociously on every front
Being part of the UK keeps energy bills down and sustains thousands of green jobs in Scotland
http://t.co/r8QP6GkHli
#indyref
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disappointed to read that this means "he's only bringing in £16,000 a month rather than £20,000"
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The right-wing press is livid. Younger readers won't remember a time they turned on the Tories. But it's always quite a sight.
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This yarn of a failed pro-Brexit protest in Plymouth gets better and better all the way to the punchline.
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"It was going well. The vibe was good, the atmosphere was one of love. A absolute sea of lovely people, full of signs showing love for our trans friends."
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About to have brunch in Govanhill and the way people talk about it blows my mind
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Getting the date wrong when you found out your mentor and predecessor was an odious sex pest is not a resigning matter.
And now he's setting out how he thought Nicola was going to intervene to help him by diverting all of this into mediation, which is the absolute rub of it. The behaviour described is way beyond mediation territory, and he's furious that intervention never happened.
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Imagine how much more successful the left here would be if we could churn out inaccessible theorybro chat like this on demand.
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"I have just been through an incredibly hard time and was looking forward to Pride as the beginning of my new chapter."
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*this* is what the government should be drummed out of office for
EXCLUSIVE: ITV News has obtained evidence that it was *always* the plan to discharge Covid-19 patients into care homes.
1,800 beds were block booked in care homes by the NHS and councils for that exact purpose.
...And they’re still being discharged.
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Article confirms that "alt-right" means "neo-Nazi". But headline still says "alt-right".
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"And then I heard shouting, and I looked to the corner to see who that was. I’m used to being shouted at by the fringe Christians, so I looked over to see if it was them (again)."
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Literally voted against equal marriage. The Lib Dems are being remade in the image of Tim Farron.
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"how many refugees should we take?" is a problematic framing of the issue: we are required by the 1951 Convention to give refuge to everyone who needs it and who gets here, so yes, we can proactively bring people here, but anyone else who comes must be accepted too
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The PM’s planning a “Festival of Brexit Britain”: smells like those shit Winter Wonderland stories where the reindeer is a labrador with antlers glued on and the elves get lifted after a fracas with the punters.
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8 years ago I got approached by a wee charity to ask if I'd freelance for them to help persuade Nicola of the merits of a better recycling system, one widely used across Europe. 6 years ago she announced it would happen. And now it's become a legit argument for independence.
‘You can have devolved powers but use them only if you do exactly what we tell you’ is not devolution in any meaningful sense. Increasingly obvious that real self government requires independence.
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it is unsustainable for a party to have one MP inside a meeting, addressing a hate group, and another outside, protesting against the same hate group – something has to give
Great to see
@KirstySNP
standing in protest outside the LGB Alliance conference this morning in Westminster
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"And then the march set off. We got to the corner of the Scottish Parliament. A building and institution I love, and that always makes me feel a little bit more proud."
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Just to be clear, I ❤️
@Jacqkelly
with my whole life.
Some people are claiming I don’t exist. This DID happen - to me. I didn’t want to say anything as me b/c work, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit here and watch terfs erase my cis lesbian existence on twitter.
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I almost can’t believe someone in Labour tweeted this out *today*
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@AllyFogg
@StephenNolan
@BBCSounds
Yep! What about taking on some anti-racism orgs after that? Or children’s charities? Perhaps there’s a donkey sanctuary we could picket.
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